MRSA--new research!

vaughanmk · Mar 3, 2003

I hope it works. It will be years before we see it in the US. I wonder how much resaearch really has been done on this? It's a bacteria that produces antibiotics to prevent others from invading its colony. But what does that origional bacteria do to humans? What kind of threat does it pose?

nursedawn67, LPN · Mar 3, 2003

Hey thanks for the info! :)

USA987, MSN, RN, NP · Mar 3, 2003

Thanks for sharing...it seems like MRSA is really on the rise!

ayemmeff · Mar 3, 2003

Originally posted by USA987
Thanks for sharing...it seems like MRSA is really on the rise!

This weekend I had 5 patients out of 12 +ve to m.r.s.a, and one who is a possible. :eek:

emily_mom · Mar 3, 2003

It would be wonderful if it's truly safe and effective! Would make our jobs A LOT easier!!!

K

nurseleigh · Mar 3, 2003

It does seem like there are a lot of MRSA patients these days, but I have only been in nursing for a year and a half.

Leigh

memphispanda, RN · Mar 3, 2003

I know that even as a student I have seen an awful lot of MRSA. In class, it almost sounded like this was uncommon, but I think I had a patient with this almost every week of clinical this semester so far. Of course this was on a high acuity Med/Surg floor with a lot of immunocompromised patients.

sixes · Mar 3, 2003

MRSA seems to be on the rise. Our small hospital screens all patients that have been in the larger city hospitals in the past year. While I was a home care nurse we had several clients with this as well as VRE. I f we needed an ambulance we had a long wait while they prepared the ambulance. Hope this really works without causing another superbug